Hi guys
I'm trying to get an old PC working with a sata hard disk as I have no pata ones spare so I bought a sata controller card (Sil 3512 chipset), installed it in the PCI slot, connected things up and booted the PC. It comes up after post with a screen prompting me to press something to enter raid set up which is just building arrays which i dont need, proceed to boot from windows CD, loads up, when it comes to install the drivers though it can't find them unless I untick 'hide drivers not compatible with this computers hardware' and then after trying to install them it still doesn't see the hard drive.
I can't get my head round it. The hard drive is definately seen by the controller as it indicates as much in the bios, and the driver is definately the right one and says on silicons website it supports windows, but when trying to put it all together windows (vista) cant see the hard drive.
I tried it on an old slipstreamed 'ultra' version of XP a friend lent me about two years ago which has every driver for everything on and it can see the hard drive in the install screen but then when it tries to write to the partition it comes up with an error.
Any suggestions would be great. Got ubuntu 8.04 .iso 93% downloaded so see if I have more luck with that though I am loathing trying to install sims 2!


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I just told it to install and beared through the errors. It is extremely sluggish but I think maybe it will speed up in a bit when it's been configured properly. Main issue I'm having now is the driver problem.